Episode 181 • • 7:08 - 10:45
181: Ezra Vancil Addiction, Divorce and the Rebuild Nobody Saw Coming
Media Portrayals of Fathers, Little House on the Prairie
Ezra Vancil and the host compare wholesome 1970s and 80s television families, like those in Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons, to modern media tropes. They critique the shift in the 1990s toward depicting fathers as "buffoons," citing Homer Simpson and King of Queens as examples of the decline in strong paternal role models.